From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 4 6:27:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dcnv.com (mail.dcnv.com [216.33.117.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4A337BB16 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 06:27:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Received: from digitalconvergence.com (sledge [207.158.100.67]) by mail.dcnv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA92614; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:25:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Message-ID: <398AC4B5.2A919E4B@digitalconvergence.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:27:17 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barak Enat Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and compaq smart raid disks (idad) References: <20000803185946.19054.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> <3989CBC4.2792D8A2@digitalconvergence.com> <0e3701bffd8e$7f8e5180$0600a8c0@barak> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I used the sysinstall from the June 2nd snapshot. The DL360 can't boot the freebsd CD so I created the two floppy set to install with. I did use the sysinstall on the floppies. The dmesg identifies the device as: ida0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xc4000000-0xc4ffffff,0xc5000000-0xc5ffffff irq 3 at device 1.0 on pci0 ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=1.40 sysinstall detected this device just fine..... Barak Enat wrote: > > well, the complete story is: > 1. i had 3.4 on the compaq which had the old ida driver (stealing the wd > name). > 2. i followed the UPDATING procedure to move to 4.1 - with no problem (just > had to change the fstab to use the new idad device name). > 3. later on i added couple of disks and used the ACU to create another > logical drive (idad1) > 4. i tried to use /stand/sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel it, but it did not > recognize any of the idad devices, so i went ahead and fixed sysinstall. > maybe the sysinstall under /stand is different from the one on the > installation media??! > have you used sysinstall on your system? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Edmonds" > To: "Barak Enat" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:45 PM > Subject: Re: sysinstall and compaq smart raid disks (idad) > > > I've got Compaq DL360s with the Integrated Smart > > RAID adapters and support was added to 4.0-STABLE > > on June 2nd. I was able to use the June 2nd > > snapshot of 4.0-STABLE and it installed fine. > > > > Have you run the configuration utility and created > > the RAID volume? > > > > > > Barak Enat wrote: > > > > > > hi, > > > > > > don't know if this is helpfull, but i had to add the > > > following two lines to > > > /usr/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c and recompile > > > sysinstall, so it will recognize the idad disks for > > > fdisk/disklabel operations. > > > > > > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "idad%d", > > > "Compaq SMART RAID adapter", 29, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' > > > }, > > > { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK, "ridad%d", > > > "Compaq SMART RAID adapter", 109, 65538, 8, 16, 'c' > > > }, > > > > > > seems odd, as at some point i think i read that 4.1 > > > installation supports the smart raid devices out of > > > the box (i.e. both in kernel and sysinstall)... > > > > > > barak > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > > > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology > > DigitalConvergence.:Com > > aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com > > Phone: +1-214-292-6040 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message